Samsi-Addu

Samsi-Addu is more commonly known by the Akkadianized version of his name - Shamshi-Addad. 

Samsi-Addu (e.g., van Driel 2000), also Amorrite, and also, if his genealogies are to be believed, nomadic in origin. But, like the southerners, Samsi-Addu seems to have been further removed from his mobile origins as there is apparently little evidence that he had a particular attachment to any mobile group, and various factors have led scholars to believe he aspired to the cultural sophistication of the settled world. 

The Habur region at that time was more or less divided between Samsi-Addu and Yahdun-Lim (Charpin 2004a 144), and eventually the two kings met in battle at Tell Brak, ancient Nagar (Charpin 2004a 138), located near the confluence... 

See Charpin 2004a for details of events in the reign of Samsi-Addu and Eidem 1994 for... 

Whereas the suffix him, meaning to many assyriologists tribe or clan, may be understood here as a patronymic or family name, Hadni-Addu should not be read as a member of Samsi-Addu s family because Addu refers to the storm god, Haddad, and is frequently included in names, as in fact is lim (Bonechi 1997). 

Charpin indeed notes throughout his discussion of Samsi-Addu this tendency to invoke local authority through a variety of means. Cf. Eidem 2000 256. 

It is, though, the juxtaposition of Naram-Sin with the Hana Yaradum (see Durand 1992 119 Charpin 2004a) and with the Numha, another tribal group, that has always seemed so incongruous as to be susceptible to no other interpretation than Samsi-Addu s desire to be seen as the heir of the Akkadians -and not just politically, although one wonders, then, just why the tribal ... 

Eidem, J. 1994. Raiders of the Lost Treasure of Samsi-Addu. In Recueil d etudes a la memoire de Maurice Birot, edited by D. Charpin and J.-M. Durand, 201-8. Florilegium marianum 2. Paris Societe pour I Etude du Proche-Oiient Ancien. 

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